Goalkeeper Adam Larson Kwarasey believes he could not play his ‘best football’ for Ghana partly because the Black Stars trainer’s preparatory methods did not suit him.
The Norwegian-born played under coach Kwasi Appiah at the 2014 Fifa World Cup, his last competition for the Stars till date.
After a 2-1 loss to the United States, Kwarasey was sidelined for Ghana’s games against Germany and Portugal.
The shot-stopper, speaking to Citi FM, asserts that the preparations for him as a goalkeeper did not bring out the best football he hoped for.
“I wish we could have accomplished more, of course, and that I could have been part of that.
“I think there are different reasons to why I have not played my best football for Ghana.
“For me personally, as a goalkeeper, I think it comes down to preparations.
“If you are responsible for working with a goalkeeper that is supposed to play, you have to prepare that goalkeeper the way he is used to, to get the best out of him and maybe add some of your own ideas.”
Kwarasey adds that the three goalkeepers back then had different characteristics and had to be trained with a look at their special features.
“That position is an individual position so you have to adjust to every goalkeeper that you work with to get the best out of them.
“I feel at times that this wasn’t the case. If Adam plays’, we prepare him the best way, if Dauda[Fatau] plays, we prepare him or if Ofori[Richard] plays, we prepare him.”
Asked if he will blame the goalkeepers’ trainer at the World Cup, Kwarasey said it was a disconnect between him and the trainer.
“I don’t really want to blame anybody for anything. It’s just my way of doing things.
“I am humble and I didn’t want to come in and change the way things were working.
“I got to work with Eddy Ansah for a period of time and I felt that we had a good connection and he recognized what I needed and mixed it with his ideas.
“So at the beginning of my national team career, things were okay and going in a good direction. When we changed coaches that also changed for me.
“I didn’t get the same connection with [Nasam Yakubu] but that’s football sometimes.
“He got more out of the other goalkeepers, maybe with his way of working, and that’s just how it is.”
Adam Larson Kwarasey, 32, has made 24 appearances for the Black Stars.
